[Vision2020] Narcissist Nader May Run Attention
Tom Hansen
thansen at moscow.com
Sat Feb 23 09:39:18 PST 2008
I fully agree.
There is room for a third party under the "runoff" election system.
Have a "preliminary" election at some point during the January-April time-
frame, followed up with a runoff election in November between the two top
candidates from the preliminary election.
Thoughts?
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
> Chasuk wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Paul Rumelhart
<godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Well, narcissist or not, I can get behind the promise to fight
> >> "corporate greed, corporate power, and corporate control". It beats
the
> >> current administration whose promise was apparently to
fight "individual
> >> liberty, common sense, and that damn piece of paper called the
> >> Constitution".
> >>
> >
> > The sentiment is wonderful, but the promise is empty, as Nader has no
> > chance of securing the presidency. All he might accomplish would be a
> > division of the electorate, which would benefit no one except for
> > McCain. Let's just say that I don't want to be exposed to the horror
> > show that would be McCain.
> >
> >
> From a strategic perspective, you are probably right. Until we move to
> instant-runoff voting, two-round voting, run-off voting, or something
> similar, we'll be stuck with a two-party system and choices like this
one.
>
> Paul
>
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